Susan F. Shultz

In 2002, Susan founded The Board Institute, Inc., to improve boards of directors through a suite of web-based, independent, educational tools to help directors evaluate, educate and benchmark their boards, committees and individual directors. The state of the art 2.0 version was relaunched in 2018.

Susan is recognized as a leading expert in corporate governance. She authored the highly acclaimed The Board Book, Making Your Corporate Board a Strategic Force in your Company's Success (AMACOM) and has been featured in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, USA Today, Strategic Finance, the Economist, CFO Magazine, Directorship, Boards & Directors and numerous other media.

She has spoken about corporate boards and executive search at The Business Roundtable; the Economist CFO Forum, Tokyo; The Chengdu Chamber of Commerce, China; “Board Strategies at Private Equity Portfolio Companies”, to private equity executives, New York City; the advanced director symposium at the Anderson School, UCLA; Women Corporate Directors, Mexico City; The Commonwealth Club; the Canadian Chartered Accountants, Montreal; the Financial Executives Int'l Annual Summit, Semantic Annual CIO Symposium; The Economist CFO Forum, Tokyo; the US-Asia Investment & Business Expo; the INAC search symposium, Amsterdam, Bogota, and Mexico City, various CEO gatherings; and to many other organizations.

Susan Shultz founded SSA Executive Search International, Ltd., and has conducted senior level searches nationally and internationally, specializing in building and structuring corporate boards.